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Lavrenty Beria's fall, like H. Dumpty's, was a great event, and all the Russian experts in the West started trying to piece together facts, rumors and Communist propaganda lies in order to reconstruct their theories of what is going on in the Kremlin. Charles Bohlen, U.S. Ambassador to Moscow, probably knew as much about what had happened as any outsider could. But last week, when he flew home to brief the Big Three Foreign Ministers' Conference, it was apparent that even "Chip" Bohlen did not know much...
Foreign ambassadors, including the U.S.'s Charles Bohlen (who had been denied ..admittance to the performance), passed the news on to their governments; foreign correspondents filed briefly. Rumors about Beria ran round Moscow, but there were no hard facts. Some recalled that Beria lives with his family in the posh Sadovaya district, in the direction the tanks headed-but so do many other Soviet leaders. U.S. Ambassador Bohlen asked Washington for vacation leave, and flew off to Paris, on the way to Majorca...
Last week, as part of the Communist "peace offensive," the U.S. newsmen got some good news. Ambassador "Chip" Bohlen told them that the Communists had finally agreed to grant exit visas to Gilmore's wife and two children, along with the families of two other Americans working for the U.S. in Moscow. Bohlen added that the Russians were also considering granting visas to the families of Gilmore's A.P. partner, Tom Whitney, and U.P.'s Henry Shapiro. Once the families were out of Russia, one of the big pressures that U.S. correspondents have been subject to would...
...When trouble came over confirmation of Charles ("Chip") Bohlen as Ambassador to Russia, Ike's choice was cleared by this investigating team...
...week Aunty Molly summoned a group of foreign emissaries to his white-walled ministry. For the first time in years, he chatted pleasantly-a task that is far from easy for a man whose infrequent smiles seem to make his face ache. When the new U.S. ambassador, Charles ("Chip") Bohlen, arrived in Moscow to take up his post, Molotov sent his chief of protocol to the airport to shake his hand. The same day he talked for 49 minutes with the British ambassador, and asked after Foreign Secretary Eden's gallbladder complaint. With such small gestures, and vague hints...